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<p>If a claimant meets the conditions for an advance we aim to make the payment within
72 hours. However, an advance can be paid on the same day the claimant applies if
they or their household would suffer genuine hardship if they had to wait 72 hours
for the payment.</p><p>Applications for a Universal Credit advance payment can be
made in person, by telephone or online depending on the claimant’s circumstances.
Depending on the type of advance payment application, we will consider whether the
claimant satisfies the eligibility conditions for receiving the advance. If the claimant
is eligible we will agree the amount of the advance and the period over which the
advance will be recovered from their future Universal Credit payments. The outcome
of the application is explained to the claimant and their online journal updated.</p>

<p>We have checked the records that the department has kept since the introduction
of the Cabinet Office guidance on settlement agreements on 1 February 2015 and confirm
that we have one record, of using an NDA with a departmental staff member in July
2015.</p><p>The use of this NDA was unintentional i.e. the standard NDA paragraph
was accidently left in the template by mistake. We are not aware of the Home Office
using NDA for departmental staff other than this since the new guidance was introduced.
However, the records examined were cross-matched from several different data sets,
assembled for different purposes. As there were some gaps in the data sets, while
we are confident this was the only instance, we cannot guarantee that we were able
to identify every case.</p>

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Written Statement of 2
April 2019, Official Report HCWS1475 on HMP Birmingham, if he will list the new approaches
that have been delivered by the private sector referred to in that Statement.

<p>Privately-managed prisons have pioneered the use of modern technology to improve
the running of establishments and help promote rehabilitation. This includes the development
of in-cell telephony to help prisoners maintain ties with their families; interactive
story-time activities between prisoners and their children; and the introduction of
electronic kiosks, which allow prisoners to have greater control of managing their
day-to-day lives. The use of body-worn video cameras was introduced by private prisons.
Private prisons also have excellent facilities as standard, such as showers in cells,
which it is not possible to provide in our older prisons.</p><p> </p><p> </p>

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department has
taken to locate the 114 documents in relation to child sexual abuse and hon. Members
which were misplaced by his Department.

<p>In February 2013, the Permanent Secretary commissioned an investigation into information
the Home Office received in relation to child abuse allegations, between 1979 and
1999. That investigation was unable to locate 114 potentially relevant Home Office
files.</p><p>On 7 July 2014 the Home Secretary appointed Peter Wanless and Richard
Whittam QC to carry out an independent review of the 2013 investigation.</p><p>On
29 July 2014, the Home Office Permanent Secretary directed that a physical search
targeted on specific areas of the Department be undertaken to see if any of the 114
missing files could be located. This did not uncover any of the 114 missing files,
though one was found prior to this exercise. As part of their Review, Wanless and
Whittam interrogated what was known about each of the 114 files. They published their
analysis within their final report, published November 2014.</p>

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, how many civil servants in the Government
Equalities Office have been seconded to (a) the Department for Exiting the European
Union and (b) the Department for International Trade in each of the last three years.

<p>The Government Equalities Office (GEO) confirms no GEO civil servants have been
seconded to either the Department for Exiting the European Union or the Department
for International Trade in the last three years.</p>

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps she is taking to help ensure
that employers provide reasonable adjustments to the workplace so that people with
hidden or invisible conditions are able to (a) access and (b) stay in employment.

<p>The law is very clear that employers must make reasonable adjustments for employees
and job applicants who meet the Equality Act 2010’s definition of disability, namely
having a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative
effect on the person’s ability to do normal daily activities. Where a disability is
not obvious, it will be necessary for the employee or job applicant to declare their
condition, but at that point the onus passes to the employer to meet its legal obligations.</p><p>
</p><p>To help employers comply with the law, the Government has issued guidance on
the duty to make reasonable adjustments, here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/reasonable-adjustments-for-disabled-workers"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/reasonable-adjustments-for-disabled-workers</a></p><p>
</p><p>In addition, guidance on this subject has been issued by Acas and by the Equality
and Human Rights Commission, which has also published a statutory code of practice
for employers. Where employers fall short on their obligations, legal remedies exist
for employees and job applicants, together with Acas’s early conciliation service,
which aims to settle disputes before they reach the employment tribunal.</p>

To ask Her Majesty's Government what information they hold on the number of, and circumstances
behind, arson attacks on churches in (1) the UK, and (2) overseas, in the last two
years; how many prosecutions there have been for such attacks in the UK; and what assessment
they have made of the motives of those responsible.

<table><tbody><tr><td><p>We have consulted Home Office, who do not hold detailed information
for all police forces around the circumstances and location of offences. Detailed
information on the location of arson offences, such as churches, may be held on court
record but to be able to identify these cases, as they are not held centrally, we
would have to access individual court records which would be of disproportionate cost.
Matters relating to Scotland and Northern Ireland are matters for those respective
devolved administrations.</p></td></tr></tbody></table>

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they welcome the decision of the Pakistan
Senate to pass a bill to amend the Child Marriage Restraint Bill 1929 to set the minimum
marriage age at 18 years in Pakistan; and whether they will consider ways in which
UK aid to Pakistan could be used to facilitate the effective enforcement of that legislation.

<p>The UK welcomes the decision by the Pakistan Senate to pass the Child Marriage
Restraint (Amendment) Bill 2019.</p><p>The UK provided £282 million to Pakistan for
the financial year 2018-19 under the AAWAZ I: Voice and Accountability Programme to
promote the rights of children, youth and women. Of this, around £400,000 was spent
on preventing forced and early marriages. The Department For International Development
(DFID) is considering ways in which UK aid could be used to facilitate the effective
implementation of the legislation once the Child Marriage Restraint (Amendment) Bill
is passed by the National Assembly, working with government institutions and communities
to help end child marriage. DFID has set aside funding for interventions in support
of ending child marriage under its AAWAZ II programme.</p><p>We will continue to urge
the Government of Pakistan to take the steps necessary to comply in full with its
human rights obligations to vulnerable groups, including women and girls, and to uphold
the rule of law.</p>

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the criteria for any new appointments to their
Migration Advisory Committee include expertise on both the positive and negative impacts
of immigration on the UK.

<p>Any appointment to the MAC will be made in line with the Cabinet Office Governance
Code for Public Appointment 2016 and Ministers will decide the appropriate criteria
to be used.</p><p>The most recent Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) appointments
were made in 2017 and the criteria for those appointments were set out in the advertisement
on the HM Government Public Appointments website,https://publicappointments.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/</p><p>
</p>

<p>​No British Government ministers have met with the family but we have made clear,
both in public and with the Maltese Government, our support for justice to be served.
We would consider any written request for a meeting if received.</p>